Music-sheet advertising device



C. H. MAIER.

MUSIC SHEET ADVERTISING DEVICE.

- APPLICATION FILED NOV, 26, 1920- I 1,390,535. PatentedSept. 13, 1921.

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INVENTDR i' @W w ATTORNEYS E J a;

CLARENCE I-I. alian, OF NEWYORK, n. Y.

MUSIC-SHEET ADVERTISING'DEVICE.

Application filed November 26, 1920. Serial No. 4 25369.]

The invention relates to antiarticle of manufacture'in thefform' of a piece of sheet -music designed-to containa dver'tislng matter and intended prilnarily to be distributed as a gift by advertising concerns. I t

One of the objects of the inventlon is to provide aisiimple form ofsheet music gift which willhave printed anemone piece of music so related; to the text of advertising 'matter disposed thereon that. the of the article having the advertisementthereon can not be thrownaway except that parts which are desiredgtoc be retained, suchas the front cover and t elm usic piece itself, must also rQ Wey- Still another object of the invention is to provide an arrangement of the textual part of the disclosure so that no advertisingfm'atter is visiblewhilethe piece of music is being played or sung, and at the same time that i the maximum available amount of space may be utilized for advertislngpurposes' wlthout providing extra sheets for this purpose.

Incidental to the preceding general object, it is a further desideratum of the nvention to :provide in a sheet music book of the insert sheet type, a disposition of'the music displaying part so that the entire piece of musi-c may be read without the necessity of turning the insert sheet.

Various other objects and advantages. of the invention will be in part obvious from an inspection of the accompanying drawings and in part will be more fully set forth in the following particular description of one form of mechanism embodying my inven tion, and the invention also consists in certain new and novel features of constructlon and combination of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Referring to' the accompanying drawings: v v

Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a preferred embodiment of the invention shown in position to expose the music piece with an upper part of the insert sheet turned side displayed in Fig.1.

'down and lower part broken away-to show the rearv side of'the front cover. sheet; and

' Specification ofLet'ter s P etenti Pa'tgn'ted S pt 1921 d Fig} .2 i s similar view of the reversed s de of the 'ShOWlhg in; Figrl with a part vof the front-cover sheet torn awayito expose 7 the'side of the insert sheet opposite-to the In thefollowingdescription in the I cla ms, parts'will be identified by specific names for convenience ofexpress n but th y are intended to be as-generic in their applilcation to similar partsas the artwill permit.

' It willbeunderstoodthat the 'sheet'music book herein illustrated is of the conventional form of such article and includes a singlefourpage sheet and asingl'e insert in the form ofa' two-pagesheet one halfthe size of" the four-page sheet. ence of identifications thepagesiare num-m bered in book order, the four-page sheet beling numbered 15 .2, 5 and 6, of-which page {7'5 For'convenil constitutes the front, cover sheet and: is usually of some artistic appearance and not back cover sheet and in the present disclosure is shown to be ruledofi' by line b toform spaces; 0 each of which contain a text-OZ preferably forming an advertising matter,

Sheet 2 being the reversed sideof the front cover sheet, is similarly ruled and blocked: off to contain a text 0 of advertising matter.- I

The pageQfcannotbe thrown away with,

out also throwing away the front cover sheet which the donee must retainin order to maintain a neat. appearance to the music sheet book. The insert sheet f identified in 0rder, as pages 3 and 4 in the book, has a size as shown in'Fig. 1 to fit over and hide the advertising matter 0 on page 2 when the infrequently printed incolors, hereingi'ndij 'cated symbolically-in Fig-2 by the refe r-v ,ence gcharacter a; page (if-constitutes the book is opened toexpose pages 4 and'5. The

exposed pages 4 and 5 have a text '9 and h thereon constituting 'a complete piece of music and this music-is so-arranged that the entire piece canfbe sung or played without turning the insert sheet nor in fact, any of the sheets in the book. The side of the insert sheet opposite from the side having the music thereon is provided with a texti cone stituting advertisements and similarly the reverse side of the music page'5, that is the back cover page 6, is provided with the advertising matter d; v

shall procure advertisements for every month or for other periods of time from merchants and other advertising concerns in a given neighborhood, and in this way sell space on pages two, three and six of the next issue of the gift. On pages four and five is arranged, some popular or classic piece of music or other valuable textual matter. Then through some approved system of distribution, the articlesuch as the sheet musicbook is distributed each month, 7

or other period of timeto the homes in the neighborhood where sheet music is used.

The next month another edition, with a new song or piece of music; and with arevised listing of advertisements is printed and distributed.

A donee of such an article would hesitate in throwingaway the article due to the value of the music'piece and so long as the article is on the piano or on the *music cabinet the' advertising matter is almost sure to be presented to any person fingering the'sheet music. However, when 'the book'is opened into the position shown in Fig. 1, and with the sheets held in flat position so that the music will be visible to 'the player or singer, no advertising matter is visible and there is nothing visible to offend theesthetic taste of the artist.

7 While reference has been made in this disclosure to the text on pages two, three and six as advertising matter it is obviously within the scope of the invention to have the text relate to other matters and in general it is to be understood that the inventionresides in the organization of thetext rather than in the subject matter of the text on the several pages.

.VVhile I have shown and described, and have pointed out in the annexed claim, certain novel features of my invention, it will be understood that various omissi0ns,,substitutions and changes in the form and details of the card system illustrated and in its operation may be made by those skilled in the art without'departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A sheet music book adapted to constitute a gift, for distribution by advertising concerns, said book including a' four-page sheet and an insert in the form ,of'a two-page sheet, said four page sheet identifiedin order as pages 1, 2, 5 and 6, of which page 1 constitutes a front cover sheet and sheet 6 constitutes a back cover sheet, page 2 on the reverse side of the front cover page having a text thereon constituting an advertisement which advertisementsheet cannot be thrownaway without also throwing away the front cover page, said insert sheet identified in order as pages 3 and4 in the book having a size to fit over and hide the advertising matter on page 2 when the book is, open to expose pages 4 and 5 said exposed pages 4 and 5 having a text thereon constituting a complete piece of music whereby the piece can be sung or played without turning any of the sheets,.the reverse sidesof said pages 4 and 5 being respectively page 3 and the back cover page 6 having a text thereon constituting advertisements which cannot be thrown away without also throwing away the piece of music.

Signed at N ew, York city, in the county of N ew.'York and State of NeW'YOrk this 18th day of November, A.D. 1920;

' CLARENCE H; MAIER. 

